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A friend of presidents, industrialists, and statesmen… A sailor whose career began on coal fired steamships but went on to witness the surrender of Japan following the use of the first atomic bomb… A pilot who became the first man to fly over the North and South Poles, and an admiral who charted a landmass fully half the size of the United States itself… Admiral Richard E. Byrd was one of the world’s last great explorers.
There is a fear that small towns are dying, losing their young to opportunities in cities. There is some evidence this is true. But there is life in rural America yet.
The allied occupation of Iceland was almost bizarrely cordial, and became even stranger when the neutral state officially requested to be occupied by the United States, at the time also neutral.
